{"id":510714,"date":"2022-11-15T22:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T19:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mccarthy-wins-gop-vote-for-speakership-handily-over-right-wing-challenge\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T22:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T19:16:13","slug":"mccarthy-wins-gop-vote-for-speakership-handily-over-right-wing-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-wins-gop-vote-for-speakership-handily-over-right-wing-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"#McCarthy wins GOP vote for Speakership handily over right-wing challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a257865bb6d4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a257865bb6d4\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mccarthy-wins-gop-vote-for-speakership-handily-over-right-wing-challenge\/#McCarthy_wins_GOP_vote_for_Speakership_handily_over_right-wing_challenge\" >McCarthy wins GOP vote for Speakership handily over right-wing challenge<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"McCarthy_wins_GOP_vote_for_Speakership_handily_over_right-wing_challenge\"><\/span>McCarthy wins GOP vote for Speakership handily over right-wing challenge<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/b2a869c8b0b4458caf37a43de297b160-1.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Republicans nominated Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) to be Speaker in a closed-door conference meeting on Tuesday after he faced a last-minute protest challenge from Rep. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), a former chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy won easily,\u00a0188 to 31,\u00a0in the internal conference meeting. But in the eyes of Biggs and his supporters, the goal was merely to demonstrate that McCarthy lacks the support to seize the gavel when the full House meets to choose the Speaker early next year. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a031\u00a0votes opposing McCarthy easily met that threshold, raising im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te questions about how McCarthy \u2014 who had failed to ascend to Speaker in 2015 \u2014 will make up the difference between now and then.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The secret-ballot House Republican Conference vote is just the first step for McCarthy to take hold of the gavel. He must win a majority in a public vote on the House floor \u2014 at least 218 votes, assuming a fully sworn-in House \u2014 on the first day of the next Congress on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s vote came as the final breakdown of House control remains unknown, with around a dozen races undecided and election projections putting Republicans just one vote shy of securing the majority. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n        <span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\" hidden=\"hidden\">\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>letters here<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<p>                            <span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the Morning Report newsletter<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The exact size of the slimmer-than-expected majority will have major implications for the rest of McCarthy\u2019s path to the gavel, since he will be able to spare only a handful of defectors on the House floor. Rules changes and committee assignments may be among the bargaining chips McCarthy uses to woo opponents back to his side before Jan. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), a Freedom Caucus member who nominated Biggs for Speaker during the conference meeting on Tuesday, said that his position on McCarthy\u2019s chances at becoming Speaker remained unchanged after Tuesday\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has 218 (or close, as needed).\u00a0We have to sit down and establish the fundamental changes needed,\u201d Roy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In a press conference, McCarthy said he thinks he will have the votes by January to become Speaker,\u00a0pointing out that former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) similarly fell short of 218 votes in their internal party nominations before later securing the Speakership on the House floor.\u00a0But he acknowledged it could be tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, we have our work cut out for us. We\u2019ve got to have a small majority. We\u2019ve got to listen to everybody in our conference,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>But Biggs said on former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon\u2019s \u201cWar Room\u201d podcast on Tuesday that there are a \u201csignificant number of hard noes\u201d for McCarthy in the House GOP.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Freedom Caucus is pushing for changes to internal conference rules that, on the whole, would chip away at leadership\u2019s power and give more to individual members \u2014 a major dynamic at play in Biggs\u2019s challenge to McCarthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of those requests is restoring any member\u2019s ability to make a motion to vacate the chair, which would force a recall vote on the Speaker. Then-Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a Freedom Caucus co-founder, made the motion in 2015, contributing to a rebellion that ended in former GOP Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) resigning from Congress later that year.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is opposed to the change, arguing that it would give too much power to Democratic members.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The House GOP conference was set to vote on rules on Wednesday, much to the frustration of Freedom Caucus members, who requested that a vote on the rules h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en before leadership elections.<\/p>\n<p>But in what may be a sign of McCarthy being willing to negotiate more on rules, he announced on Tuesday that some rules changes would be considered on Wednesday and others considered after Thanksgiving, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a 36-year House veteran, acknowledged that McCarthy has his work cut out for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing\u2019s easy,\u201d said Upton, who\u2019s retiring at the end of this term. \u201cHe\u2019s going to work hard, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upton said the dynamics remind him of the race to replace Boehner in 2015, when conservative opposition forced McCarthy to drop out of the contest. But with one major difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike before when, in essence, Kevin threw in the towel, he\u2019s not going to do it this time,\u201d Upton said. \u201cThey had an easy path before when Kevin backed off. He\u2019s not backing off this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both supporters and opponents of McCarthy acknowledged a major difference between the internal nomination vote and the Jan. 3 vote that could improve McCarthy\u2019s level of support: On the House floor, votes will be public and not secret \u2014 likely influencing those who do not want to upset McCarthy to vote for him.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs launched a late challenge to McCarthy on Monday night and did not make a presentation beforehand at a House GOP leadership candidate forum, during which McCarthy got standing ovations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a new paradigm here, and I think the country wants a different direction from the House of Representatives,\u201d Biggs said on Newsmax Monday night. He has previously expressed disappointment with McCarthy downplaying the prospects of impeachment for Biden administration officials like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Reps. Michael Cloud (Texas) and Ralph Norman (S.C.) seconded Roy\u2019s nomination of Biggs in the conference meeting on Tuesday, according to a source in the room. Rep. Kelly Armstrong (N.D.) was among those who gave a speech in support of McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Not all members of the Freedom Caucus agree with the tactic of challenging McCarthy, however.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), once a doubter of McCarthy\u2019s ability to become Speaker, has become one of his most vocal supporters for the post \u2014 as she hopes to secure favorable committee assignments in the next Congress. A slim majority, she fears, could cause moderate Republicans to join Democrats and elect a compromise moderate candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to elect Kevin McCarthy,\u201d Greene told reporters Monday. \u201cI can\u2019t support a challenge that will allow the Democrats to elect their own Speaker by pulling some of ours.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Speakership has been a longtime goal for McCarthy, who has been active in Republican politics since his young adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I be Speaker?\u201d McCarthy said in jest to a member presiding over the House at one point during an overnight, record-breaking speech on the House floor last year, when he delayed passage of a major Democratic tax, climate and spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>After rising to minority leader in the California State Assembly, the Bakersfield, Calif., Republican was elected to the U.S. House in 2006, eventually rising through the leadership ranks from chief deputy whip to whip to majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>But Biggs\u2019s challenge is the latest chapter in the saga of McCarthy battling and wooing the House GOP\u2019s right flank.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>First came the conservative opposition that sank his 2015 Speakership bid, and then in 2018, Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), another member of the House Freedom Caucus, challenged him in the race for GOP leader.<\/p>\n<p>But as the top House Republican for the last four years, McCarthy has given the right flank a seat at the table, unlike some of his leadership predecessors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jordan is set to become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and is fully supporting McCarthy. Greene was invited to participate in McCarthy\u2019s \u201cCommitment to America\u201d policy platform rollout in September.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps most notably, McCarthy quickly mended his relationship with former President Trump after saying that Trump bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing to Mar-a-Lago to meet with him weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Trump threw his support behind McCarthy for Speaker before last week\u2019s elections. McCarthy has not endorsed the former president running for a third time in 2024, which Trump is expected to announce Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mike Lillis contributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated 6:10 p.m.<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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